Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Format
Book
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xxiv, 383 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-353) and index.
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While Joe Kennedy was grooming his sons for the White House and the Senate, his Stanford-educated daughter Eunice was tapping her father's fortune and her brothers' political power to engineer one of the great civil rights movements of our time on behalf of millions of children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Now, in Eunice, Pulitzer Prize winner Eileen McNamara finally brings Eunice Kennedy Shriver out from her brothers' shadow to show an officious, cigar-smoking, indefatigable woman of unladylike determination and deep compassion born of rage: at the medical establishment that had no answers for her sister Rosemary; at the revered but dismissive father whose vision for his family did not extend beyond his sons; and at the government that failed to deliver on America's promise of equality. Granted access to never-before-seen private papers-from the scrapbooks Eunice kept as a schoolgirl in prewar London to her thoughts on motherhood and feminism-McNamara paints a vivid portrait of a woman both ahead of her time and out of step with it: the visionary founder of the Special Olympics, a devout Catholic in a secular age, and a formidable woman whose impact on American society was longer lasting than that of any of the Kennedy men.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

McNamara, E. (2018). Eunice: the Kennedy who changed the world (First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.). Simon & Schuster.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

McNamara, Eileen. 2018. Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World. Simon & Schuster.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

McNamara, Eileen. Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World Simon & Schuster, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

McNamara, Eileen. Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition., Simon & Schuster, 2018.

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